CATTLE DECAPITATION: New Album To Be Streamed In Its Entirety

"The Harvest Floor", the new album from San Diego extreme metallers CATTLE DECAPITATION, will be streamed in its entirety on Buzzgrinder.com beginning tomorrow (Friday, January 16) and ending on Monday (January 19). Besides being able to hear each song in its full, grinding glory, you will be able to read a song-by-song breakdown by vocalist Travis Ryan.

CATTLE DECAPITATION filmed a video for the song "Regret & the Grave" this past weekend. According to the band, "We managed to pull off some serious guerilla-style filming right in the middle of a busy park with frightening 'shock troopers' walking and pacing around in full regalia and the volunteers helped offset that with their 'normal' and toned down looks. The video should be ready for viewing within a couple weeks; just a couple more scenes to shoot and we're DONE! It's going to be quite a disturbing piece of footage, to say the least."

Check out photos from the video shoot at this location.

"The Harvest Floor" is scheduled for release on January 20 in North America; January 30 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy; and February 2 throughout the rest of Europe via Metal Blade Records. An e-card for the album can be found at this location.

The drum tracks for "The Harvest Floor" were laid down with Zach
Ohren (ALL SHALL PERISH, DECREPIT BIRTH) before the rest of the instruments were recorded and the entire thing was mixed with producer Billy Anderson (MR. BUNGLE, MELVINS, SWANS) at Sharkbite studios in Oakland, California.

According to the group, "Sonically, the band has managed to finally capture and accentuate its live intensity that we've become known for and has created one hell of an album from start to epic finish! Conceptually, its misanthropy shall go unmatched. This is it, humans... ferocity at its finest."

Regarding the album title and packaging, the band states, "The actual title refers to the area of a slaughterhouse where the animal (of course in our case it always means the HUMAN) begins the agonizing process of death, usually done with a bolt to the forehead or a slice to the throat. 'The Harvest Floor' is a fitting title for an album laden in gore and the anti-human metaphors and sentiments CATTLE DECAPITATION fans have grown to know and love. Artwork [see below] by Wes Benscoter shows the outside of a large slaughterhouse/factory of doom and gloom with the general public being herded inside to meet their demise. The inside of the album layout reveals what's really inside that slaughterhouse: our misanthropic heroes of GORE (not core) at another hard day of work! Combined with the amazing artwork and conceptually brutal layout, 'The Harvest Floor' also contains an enhanced portion which sports an iPod-ready documentary titled 'Pandemic: The Damnation Epic - The Making of “The Harvest Floor' which, simply put, makes 'The Harvest Floor' an apocalyptic multimedia epic!

"The Harvest Floor" track listing:

01. The Gardeners of Eden
02. A Body Farm
03. We are Horrible People
04. Tooth Enamel & Concrete
05. The Ripe Beneath the Rind
06. The Product Alive
07. In Axetasy
08. Into the Public Bath
09. The Harvest Floor
10. Regret & the Grave

The CD features guest vocal appearances by Ross Sewage (IMPALED, LUDICRA) and Dino Sommese (DYSTOPIA, ASUNDER). There is alsoa special appearance by Jarboe (SWANS),lending her beautifully haunting voice to the epic death dirge "The Harvest Floor". Jackie Perez Gratz (GRAYCEON, AMBER ASYLUM) graces a couple tracks with her electric cello and Los Angeles noisician John Wiese also lends his electronic/atmospheric expertise to the album, further separating the band from the typical "cookie-cutter" approach applied all too often by today's extreme acts.